Ukrainian Terrorism: 75 yo. woman’s life destroyed by Ukrainian shelling of Donetsk

75 year old woman speaks of Ukraine’s bombing of her apartment in June, destroying it.

This was in a completely civilian district where around the same time, still more Ukrainian-fired Grad missiles targeted a school, killing employees inside. Only because children were distance-learning, were they spared.

I rented a small apartment in the same district my last visits here. It was an insight into how Ukraine’s terrorism reaches everywhere, including an otherwise quiet Donetsk neighbourhood.

[Related: Due to Ukraine’s attacks on water infrastructure, Donetsk districts have endured water rationing, then, for the past many months such shortages that some districts only get water every 3 days. When I stayed in this neighbourhood, I never had water, period. Like others, I would go to points where water was being distributed by Emergency Services, fill my 5 litre jugs, and be extremely careful with my water use.

There are so many layers to Ukraine’s terrorism.

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By Eva K Bartlett

Eva Bartlett is a Canadian independent journalist and activist. She has spent years on the ground covering conflict zones in the Middle East, especially in Syria and occupied Palestine, where she lived for nearly four years. She is a recipient of the 2017 International Journalism Award for International Reporting, granted by the Mexican Journalists’ Press Club (founded in 1951), was the first recipient of the Serena Shim Award for Uncompromised Integrity in Journalism, and was short-listed in 2017 for the Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism. See her extended bio on her blog In Gaza

@evakbartlett

(Source: ingaza.wordpress.com; November 21, 2022; https://bit.ly/3Vdk2qH)
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